Here I sit one year after 9/11, listening to the tributes and the
talking heads droning on about the attack, and I wonder how stupid
Americans can be. One year after the fruits of our touchy-feely, Age-
of-Aquarius, make-love-not-war society have spattered on the hard
concrete of reality, we all sit and dab our eyes thinking of the human
tragedies that we have glimpsed, and waiting for it to happen again.
Our "Leaders" give out warnings, pass laws, enact regulations, and
post color coded threat levels (knowing the media types are too stupid
to deal with complicated warnings like High, Medium, and Low) while
the American people stand mother naked before the enemy.

The government knows that the most likely group of persons to engage
in terrorist attacks are 20 to 40 year old males of middle-eastern
descent, but are such persons subject to greater scrutiny? No, that
would be 'Racial Profiling'. The government knows that airport
security is lax at best, has anything been done? No, the same stumble-
bum rent-a-cops are working there today, albeit with better pay and
benefits, courtesy of the American tax-payers. The government know
that Al-Qaeda was training to disrupt civil order through smaller
scale attacks on American citizens (drive-by shootings, small
bombings, assassinations, etc.), have they encouraged American
citizens to be vigilant and ARMED like the Israeli grandmother who
shot the homicide-bomber not long ago? No, in fact the usual suspects
in Washington are attempting to use the 9/11 attacks to justify
further disarmament of the American public. Have they even amended
U.S. Code Title 18, Part 1, Chapter 2, Section 37 to allow American
citizens to defend themselves from hijackers without fear of Federal
prosecution? NO, if you say 'Let's Roll' and jump the guys who want to
slam your plane into a building you might get a heros welcome, or you
might spend years as a guest of the Federal Penal system, depending on
the political whim of the moment.

No my friends, nothing has changed, except the level of fear. The
question is, what should we fear most, the terrorists, or the
government that demands we be defenseless before them? Here's a hint,
only one of them is pointing anti-aircraft missiles at your flight,
and promising to use them.

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The State vs. The People, by Claire Wolfe and Aaron Zelman

Is America becoming a police state? Friends of liberty need to know.

Some say the U.S. is already a police state. Others watch the news
for signs that their country is about to cross an indefinable line. Since
September 11, 2001, the question has become more urgent. When do roving
wiretaps, random checkpoints, mysterious "detentions," and military tribunals
cross over from being emergency measures to being the tools of a government
permanently and irrevocably out of control?

The State vs. the People examines these crucial issues. But first,
it answers this fundamental question: "What is a police state?"